8-17-07

www.huffingtonpost.com - Zero, Zip, No "Freedom of Speech"

If you are one of the gazillion people who post on blogs, you know there is no freedom of speech on blogs. Every word one writes must be approved by editors, freedom of speech police, before one's post is allowed to be posted. The speech police approving our every post is actually worse than not having the right to post opinions. Why? Selected posts which convey a manipulated slant give the incorrect appearance that all posters are sounding the same general cord. Deception. If the people were not allowed to post at all, then the people would realize they are living in a police state in which we do not have a right to free speech. We have a write to give our opinions as long as they are approved by the speech police and that means our posts promote the Federal Reserve Fraud, Neocon, New World Order agenda. Occasionally I forget the USA has been stolen by the Federal Reserve Fraud and their communi$t minions and try to post on a blog only to find that my post has been rejected. Let's see. Big media is nothing more than a propaganda arm of the Federal Reserve Fraud communi$t$ who cowardly run the USA for their benefit because they are too lazy to live life fairly. Now we have blogs which again are propaganda tools of these same Federal Reserve Fraud communi$t$. Out of one side of the blogs' mouths spews propaganda like, "We never edit one's comments and opinions," out of the other side of the blogs' mouths comes an army of editors, speech police, who reject and do not allow posts unless the posts promotes the Federal Reserve Fraud propaganda and their communi$t Neocon agenda.

I tried to have my two bits posted on www.huffingtonpost.com relative to the following article.

Charles H. Green
The Deeper Message of Financial Markets' Volatility
Posted August 16, 2007 | 11:06 PM (EST)

The Dow swung 600 points (high to low) in two days this week -- and the week's not over.
Key stock market indices in Indonesia and South Korea lost over 6% of their total value yesterday alone. Seoul's Kospi Index had its biggest point drop ever.

The short story is the same as the long story -- but the long story is much more interesting.
The short story starts with a classic housing bubble. People start borrowing to buy real estate. It becomes musical chairs, flip the property, sell to the greater fool. And use leverage. Better yet, OPM (other people's money). Best -- use both.

Lenders, like good drug pushers anywhere, develop new products and pitches. Finance the first mortgage with the second; "liar's" loans, no proof of income required. Wall Street packages loans, slices and repackages them and resells them. No one is left holding the bag -- everyone is left holding the bag.

National Public Radio reports that you can purchase complete lies about your income and employment history at sites like verifyemployment.net to help fuel the game.

The short story is that the world has become so connected financially that a housing bubble in the US can decimate the stock market in Djakarta. Everything is linked to everything. This isn't like 1929, where wealthy people lost money in the crash and soon couldn't pay their employees. This is far more integrated, international, intertwined, interdependent -- and fast. Butterflies flapping wings and all that.

True enough. But the financial markets are just a piece of a bigger puzzle.

In the long story, the growth in connectedness of all things exceeds the wildest dreams of rabid conspiracy theorists from just a few decades ago.

Tom Friedman's The World is Flat is, at root, about how the world has become interconnected. Time and space are being obliterated by always-on, high-bandwidth, voice, data and video connections. Capital flows easily around the world. The internet's inherent freedom runs roughshod over the desires of industries and nations alike to maintain boundaries. Even labor becomes mobile -- if not through immigration, then through outsourcing.

Six degrees of separation has for some time now begun to look like an overstatement.
The first level of business implications is clear. Pick one thing and do it the best in the world; outsource everything else to whomever is doing those things the best in the world.

But even that is old paradigm stuff--competing in a global world and all that. Increasingly, that's so five minutes ago.

The really, really big lesson is this.

The game of competition is over. It's not about vertical corporations competing against each other anymore. It's about collaboration and connectivity -- with everyone. He who can get along with everyone better than everyone else will succeed.

Not "win" -- succeed.

In a massively connected world, corporate strategy is less relevant than customer strategy. It's your ability to cut agreements with customers and suppliers that helps you -- not your ability to squeeze pennies out of them.

This is a huge shift for people raised in business in the last 50 years, weaned on concepts like sustainable competitive advantage and shareholder wealth creation.

The business-strategic value of trust was always high. It's about to get far, far higher. Those stuck with mental models built on inter-corporate competition are going to get left behind those who "get" the simple idea of service to customers, employees, and partners.

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Well, I agreed. Competition is over. But then I stated the truth as to why it was over, which of course is only my opinion, Federal Reserve Fraud lapdog Alan Greenspan deliberately lowered the Federal funds rate to .025 or so, to deliberately destitute the people, as the people are being destitute now, and the huffingtonpost.com's speech police, would not allow my post be posted.

A great American said something to the effect, I detest so and so and every word out of his mouth, but I will fight to my death to make sure he can spew his filth.

Freedom of speech means freedom of speech. Freedom of speech does not mean we will post your post if we agree with your post. If anyone knows of a blog which does not reject posts, please send the name of the blog my way. I would like to check it out and print the name of the blog with this article. Although it is huffingtonpost.com which has rejected my post today, the Democratic Underground does not allow me to post. If you think this is an example of the people of the USA living in a communi$t police state, you're right.

Rove's Farewell Maneuver

Probably, a bad idea to write the following, because I do believe in Karma, but Karl Rove is an incredibly bad guy, and every move of his should be analysed as to motive. In my opinion Karl Rove has played dirty tricks in my life and this Administration, in my opinion, have done many dirty deeds over the last eight years. Is Karl Rove responsible, as one of his last public relations maneuvers, for Little George's daughter announcing her engagement now? Rove is such a student of politics he must of studied long and hard the plusses and minuses of every White House wedding. Let's see, the last two presidents' whose daughters were married in the White House were presidents during an unpopular war. One or possibly both presidents were toppled by Big George and the minions of the Federal Reserve Fraud. I am not in a goo goo ga ga mood when I think what Karl Rove has done to me and this president has done to our Constitution and American people, our brave soldiers, and the people of the Mid East via Federal Reserve Fraud manipulated wars.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070816/bush-daughter-engagement/

Bush's Daughter, Jenna, Engaged

DEB RIECHMANN | August 16, 2007 07:28 PM EST |

CRAWFORD, Texas — Is a White House wedding in the works? Jenna Bush, one of President Bush's twin daughters, is engaged to be married to her longtime boyfriend, Henry Hager, the White House announced Thursday.

Asked if the two were getting married in the Rose Garden, Sally McDonough, press secretary for first lady Laura Bush, replied: "They have not set any details, date or place."

Jenna Bush, 25, and Hager, 29, were engaged Wednesday in Maine, she said.

The two have been dating for several years, and Hager is often seen at Jenna Bush's side at Bush family functions and formal events, such as a White House dinner in November 2005 in honor of Britain's Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.

Hager will be returning to school this fall to complete his master's degree in business administration at the University of Virginia. He has an undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University.

Hager, who has been a White House aide and worked on Bush's re-election campaign, is the son of John and Maggie Hager of Richmond, Va. His father is chairman of the Republican Party in Virginia, former assistant secretary of the Education Department's office of special education, former lieutenant governor of Virginia and former director of Virginia's Office of Commonwealth Preparedness.

After earning a degree in English in 2004 from the University of Texas at Austin, Jenna Bush spent a year and a half teaching at Elsie Whitlow Stokes, a public charter elementary school in the Washington area. After that, she worked for 10 months in Latin America as an intern for UNICEF. She worked with adolescents in Argentina, Paraguay and Panama, where she taught at a shelter.

She spent this summer teaching at the charter school and traveling to Africa with her mother, first lady Laura Bush. She and her mother, also a schoolteacher, are collaborating on a children's picture storybook to be published in spring 2008. Proceeds are to be donated to two education programs: Teach for America and The New Teacher Project.

Jenna Bush also has her own book coming out Sept. 28. "Ana's Story," based on her time working for UNICEF, tells of a 17-year-old single mother who is HIV positive. Some of the book proceeds will go to UNICEF.

The twins, each named for a grandmother, spent most of Bush's first term avoiding the media glare but didn't always succeed.

There was an embarrassing run-in with the law in Texas for underage drinking in May 2001, their father's first year in the White House. It was Jenna Bush's second offense for violating state alcoholic beverage laws, coming after a no contest plea two weeks earlier, and the first for Barbara, who holds a degree in humanities from Yale University.

And Jenna, full of spunk, was photographed sticking her tongue out at the media during a campaign stop in Missouri in 2004.

The last time there was a White House wedding was in 1994.

The Rose Garden was crammed with 250 chairs and a white canopy for the wedding of Nicole Boxer, daughter of Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Tony Rodham, the younger brother of then first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, now a senator from New York and Democratic presidential hopeful.

In 1971, President Nixon's daughter, Tricia, was married in style to Harvard law student Edward Cox. She walked down the staircase of the columned South Portico and danced at a reception in the ornate East Room.

Other presidential daughters to have all or part of their weddings at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue include: President Johnson's daughter, Luci Baines Johnson Nugent, who had her wedding reception at the White House in August 1966, Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, who married her husband in the East Room in December 1967; and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, who was wed at the White House in the early 1900s.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-gurvitz/the-race-card_b_60751.html

Ian Gurvitz
The Race Card
Posted August 16, 2007 | 03:24 PM (EST)

Several days ago I posted a piece on this site (and on my blog) about the 96 members of the Romney clan and their full frontal assault on Iowa. That smiling, extended family photo just struck me as an anachronistic image, at a time when the office of the presidency finally seemed open to a little diversity. Now, along the way, I took a brief sidetrip, saying that I didn't really care for white people, felt embarrassed to be one of them, etc...and a few people called me to task for trying to pull off some kind of ironic, hip double-reverse, or for forgetting that one's sense of identity doesn't arise from the color of one's skin, but from the content of one's character. Yeah, I got that a few decades ago.

But just to clarify: I was kidding. The whole "I don't care for white people" was a joke. Just having a little fun with stereotypes along the way to making a point about candidates putting out the perfect, uber-family photo as part of their resume. And this one struck me as looking very, very white, and it made me wonder if it might not have been a subliminal part of the message. But the few who called me out on this made the point that we've really gone past this as a society and race really has no part in the political debate. The stakes are too high to get mired in the old stupidity. And I agree.

Then this love note crawled out of Caucasia and landed on my blog. You can imagine for yourself the crayon clutched in the twisted, gnarly hand of the diseased soul who composed it.

"just more self hate from the hip guilted white dumbfuck__hey guilted whitey are you just not drooling at the mouth waiting for the day when you and your fellow whitetrash can crown obama__when that day comes it will be like china's cultural revolution__whites will have any remaining racial-cultural identity stripped from them. as the black people strut around and boogie in their walk ecstatic that they have one of their own as the new american boss __the frontline storm troopers of this anti-white cultural revolution will be of course those dumb as dirt white-trash guilted whites and their self hating shitbrain anti-white party bosses all of which are lead by of course (who else?) the masterjew overlords pulling all the strings just as they did in the russian communist-bolshevik revolution__it has become the hip and progressive thing for young liberal guilted white dumbfucks to dump their race and cultural identity and embrace anything but white, because it is taught within the guilted white world that they are evil and racist and the oppressors of the world and only when they free themselves from their evil white racist identity will the world come together and have peace__and don't think the white guilt disease has anything to do with i.q. measurement, most of the guilted white world in fact are the very cream of the intellectual white society__the mystery and magic of white guilt permeates even the most intelligent of whites for it is spiritual in nature and penetrates the heart of the white victim."
Despite the fact that intelligent people like to feel we've excised this cancer from our society, it seems it still lurks deep within the American cellular makeup. It's certainly not benign, one just hopes it's not malignant. Apparently, the race card might still be in the deck.

This article is incredibly racist. This article is a perfect example of the slant allowed by http://www.huffingtonpost.com speech police. The blog post is total and complete made up by Gurvitz fiction.

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